Schedule, syllabus and examination date

Course content

The course deals with trace element determination and speciation analysis with focus on the use of inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). The following topics are included: principle, instruments, interferences and application of ICP-MS, sample treatment, validation of analytical methods, quality assurance and accreditation of analytical laboratories.

Learning outcome

After completion of this course:

you have a thorough understanding of the principle, instruments and interferences of ICP-MS

you are familiar with the possibilities for eliminating interferences, and you know how to optimize an ICP-MS method

you know the possibilities and limitations for speciation- and fractionation analysis

you can propose a sample treatment procedure and a sample introduction system for a given analytical problem

you can explain why validation of analytical methods is important and how it can be performed

you know what accreditation of an analytical laboratory requires

Admission

Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for in Studentweb.

If you have been admitted to a ph.d.-programme at another faculty or learning institution, and the course enters into the approved training part of the ph.d.-programme there, you must within a given deadline apply for status as Visiting ph.d.-student.

Recommended previous knowledge

Overlapping courses

Teaching

The course consists of 30 hours of lectures.

The first lecture is mandatory. If you are unable to join, the Expedition Office has to be informed in advance (phone 22 85 54 46, or e-mail ekspedisjonen@kjemi.uio.no). If you fail to register as an active student for the course in either of these ways, you will loose the access to the course for the given semester.

Within August 10th / January 10th, international students must inform the Examination Officer at the Department of Chemistry (room VU12, phone 22855447) if English teaching is requested.

Access to teaching

A student who has completed compulsory instruction and coursework and has had these approved, is not entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework. A student who has been admitted to a course, but who has not completed compulsory instruction and coursework or had these approved, is entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework, depending on available capacity.

Examination

Oral examination.

This course offers new examination in the beginning of the subsequent semester for candidates who fail or withdraw during an ordinary examination for students who will take their exam spring 2013.

From fall 2013, the following rules apply:

This course offers new examination in the beginning of the subsequent term for candidates who fail an ordinary examination. Deferred examinations for students who due to illness or other valid reason of absence were unable to sit for their final exams will be arranged at the same time. (These valid reasons has to be documented within given deadlines.). We do not offer new examination for students who withdraw from the exam.